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This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Upper Room</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath days journey away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>When they had entered <i>the city,</i> they went up to the upper room where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James <i>the son</i> of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas <i>the</i> <i>son</i> of James. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with <i>the</i> women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>At this time Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty persons was there together), and said, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Brethren, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>(Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>And it became known to all who were living in Jerusalem; so that in their own language that field was called Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>For it is written in the book of Psalms,<br>         L<font size="1">ET HIS HOMESTEAD BE MADE DESOLATE</font>,<br>         A<font size="1">ND LET NO ONE DWELL IN IT</font>;<br>         and,<br>         L<font size="1">ET ANOTHER MAN TAKE HIS</font> <font size="1">OFFICE</font>.<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>beginning with the baptism of John until the day that He was taken up from usone of these <i>must</i> become a witness with us of His resurrection. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>And they prayed and said, You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/1-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/acts/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/acts/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/acts/1.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding him, and a cloud received him out of their sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/acts/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/acts/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />When He had said this, and while they were looking at Him, He was carried up, and a cloud closing beneath Him hid Him from their sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/acts/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/acts/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_3_ye_shall_receive.htm">June 3. "Ye Shall Receive the Power of the Holy Ghost" (Acts i. 8). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost" (Acts i. 8). There is power for us if we have the Holy Ghost. God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to count in the actual records and results of Christian work. Dear friends, God sent you here to be a power yourself. There is not one of you but is an essential wheel of the machinery, and can accomplish all that God calls you to. I solemnly believe that there <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_3_ye_shall_receive.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/ascension_day.htm">Ascension Day</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: Acts 1, 1-11. 1 The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, 2 until the day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen: 3 to whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God: 4 and being assembled together with them, he charged them not <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/ascension_day.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. II</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_forty_days.htm">The Forty Days</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.'--ACTS i. 3. The forty days between the Resurrection and the Ascension have distinctly marked characteristics. They are unlike to the period before them in many respects, but completely similar in others; they have a preparatory character throughout; they all bear on the future work of the disciples, and hearten them for the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_forty_days.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_unknown_to-morrow.htm">The Unknown To-Morrow</a><br></span><span class="snippet">A New Year's Sermon 'It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.'--ACTS i. 7. The New Testament gives little encouragement to a sentimental view of life. Its writers had too much to do, and too much besides to think about, for undue occupation with pensive remembrances or imaginative forecastings. They bid us remember as a stimulus to thanksgiving and a ground of hope. They bid us look forward, but not along the low levels of earth and its changes. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_unknown_to-morrow.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_theme_of_acts.htm">The Theme of Acts</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach. 2. Until the day in which He was taken up.'--ACTS i. 1, 2. 'And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, 31. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.' --ACTS xxviii. 30, 31. So begins and so ends this Book. I connect the commencement and the close, because I think <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_theme_of_acts.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_ascension.htm">The Ascension</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2. Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the Apostles whom He had chosen: 3. To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: 4. And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_ascension.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_apostolic_witnesses.htm">The Apostolic Witnesses</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us ... must one be ordained to be a witness with us of His resurrection.' --ACTS i. 21, 22. The fact of Christ's Resurrection was the staple of the first Christian sermon recorded in this Book of the Acts of the Apostles. They did not deal so much in doctrine; they did not dwell very distinctly upon what we call, and rightly call, the atoning death of Christ; out they proclaimed what they had <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/the_apostolic_witnesses.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_about_jesus/7_the_ascension_back_home.htm">The Ascension: Back Home Again Until -- --</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Tarry ye--Go ye: the Jerusalem meeting--the walk to Olives--not Palestine only, but a world--the last word--upward--seen no more. Coming again: gazing upward, Acts 1:10, 11.--a continuation upward--the Olivet outlook. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_about_jesus/7_the_ascension_back_home.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">S. D. Gordon—</span><span class="citation2">Quiet Talks about Jesus</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schleiermacher/selected_sermons_of_schleiermacher/xxvi_the_parting_promises_of.htm">The Parting Promises of the Saviour. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(On Ascension Day.) TEXT: ACTS i. 6-11. THE great event that we commemorate to-day was no doubt something very different to the disciples at that time from what it is to us. They had hardly recovered from the stunned condition into which His death had thrown them; they had hardly come to realize calmly their pain at His separation from them; at least, they had certainly not yet learned to look at it in the right way, for they regarded it as the ruin of His whole work on earth--when His joyful resurrection <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schleiermacher/selected_sermons_of_schleiermacher/xxvi_the_parting_promises_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Friedrich Schleiermacher—</span><span class="citation2">Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_61_the_mystery_of.htm">The Mystery of Iniquity</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The mystery of iniquity doth already work." 2 Thess. 2:7. 1. Without inquiring how far these words refer to any particular event in the Christian Church, I would at present take occasion from them to consider that important question, -- In what manner the mystery of iniquity hath wrought among us till it hath well-nigh covered the whole earth. 2. It is certain that "God made man upright;" perfectly holy and perfectly happy: But by rebelling against God, he destroyed himself, lost the favour and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_61_the_mystery_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_39_1893/witnessing_better_than_knowing_the.htm">Witnessing Better than Knowing the Future</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."--Acts 1:6-8. THESE ARE AMONG THE LAST WORDS of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_39_1893/witnessing_better_than_knowing_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 39: 1893</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/acts/1-9.htm">Acts 1:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/acts/1-9.htm">Acts 1:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/acts/1-9.htm">Acts 1:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/acts/1-9.htm">Acts 1:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/acts/1-9.htm">Acts 1:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/acts/1-9.htm">Acts 1:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/acts/1-9.htm">Acts 1:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../acts/1-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 1:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 1:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../acts/1-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 1:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 1:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/acts/1-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>